Brachyglottis.| COMPOSIT#. 367 
2-lipped ; outer lobe or ligule broad, inner small, narrow, revolute. 
Disc-florets hermaphrodite, tubular with a campanulate 5-toothed 
mouth. Anthers obtuse at the base, entire. Style-branches of the 
hermaphrodite florets truncate, papillose at the tips. Achenes 
terete or obscurely angled, papillose. Pappus-hairs copious, in 
1 series. 
A small genus of two (or more probably one) species, confined to New Zea- 
land. It differs from Senecio in habit, in the shape of the female corolla, and in 
the papillose achenes. 
Leaves dull. Involucres whitish, shining A .. L. B. repanda. 
Leayes larger, glossy. Involucres purplish, hardly shining 2. B. Rangiora. 
1. B. repanda, Forst. Char. Gen. 46, t. 40.—A shrub or small 
tree 8-20 ft. high; branches stout, brittle, densely clothed with 
soft white tomentum. Leaves 4-12 in. long including the petiole, 
broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, irregularly lobed or sinuate, mem- 
branous, dull-green and glabrous above, clothed with milk-white 
tomentum beneath; petiole stout, 1-3in. long. Panicles large, ex- 
ceeding the leaves, often drooping. Heads small, 4 in. long; bracts 
linear-oblong, whitish, shining. Florets 10-12; female florets with 
the outer lip lobed or entire.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 463; Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 163; Kirk, Students’ Fil. 336. Senecio Forster, 
‘Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 148, t. 40. Cineraria repanda, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 295; A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 255. 
Nortu anp SoutH Isntanps: Abundant from the North Cape as far south 
as Kaikoura and Greymouth. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Pukapuka; Wharangi- 
tawhito. August—October. 
A common plant in the northern portion of the colony. It is said to be 
poisonous to cattle and horses. 
2. B. Rangiora, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 3857.— 
Very similar to the preceding, but rather smaller, seldom more than 
12 or 14 ft. high, with stouter branches and larger leaves. Leaves 
6-15 in. long including the petiole, more coriaceous and glossy, 
sometimes unequal at the base; petiole longer and stouter, 3-5 in. 
long. Involucral bracts purplish, hardly shining. Female florets 
with the outer ligule entire.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 336. 
NortH anp SoutH Isnanps: Shores of Cook Strait, Buchanan! Kirk ; 
Westport, Dr. Gaze! Greymouth, Helms ! Rangiora. July-September. 
I consider this to be a trivial variety of B. repanda, from which it differs in 
no important character. But as both Kirk and Buchanan treated it as a dis- 
tinct species, and as they were supported by the late Dr. Mantell, who had it in 
cultivation for many years, I have retained it for the present. It appears to 
keep its characters, such as they are, under cultivation. 
